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Cba Delighted As Tweed Walks Away From Court Case And Pays Costs

SHARE scammer David Tweed has abandoned his court bid to sue Commonwealth Bank for up to $80 million, and has agreed to pay $400,000 to the bank and share registry group ASX Perpetual Registrars.

Tweed Concedes Share Case, Agrees To Pay $400,000

Share scammer David Tweed has abandoned his court bid to sue Commonwealth Bank for up to $80 million and has agreed to pay $400,000 to the bank and share registry group ASX Perpetual Registrars. ASIC is due to front Justice Arthur Emmett on Monday in the Federal Court in Sydney and allege that below-market offers that Mr Tweed's company, National Exchange, recently sent to shareholders of aged-care provider Aevum were misleading, deceptive and unconscionable.

Tweed's Letter Illegal, Bank Tells Court

CBA claims it had legitimate reasons for releasing the share register in a difficult software format.

Cba Chiefs Knew Of Ploy To Foil Tweed

COMMONWEALTH Bank chief executive David Murray, the bank's chief financial officer, its then company secretary and senior legal counsel were all kept informed of efforts by the bank's officers to frustrate share scammer David Tweed as he tried to get a copy of the share register in March 2003.

Share Scammer Rakes In $10m From Four Deals

DAVID Tweed, the millionaire recluse who makes a living from exploiting naive investors, made a profit of about $10 million in 2003 from just four of his below-market price share scams.

Cba Officer Tells Of Plan To Block Tweed

The Commonwealth Bank's chief executive, chief financial officer, company secretary and senior legal counsel were all kept informed of efforts by bank officers to frustrate share scammer David Tweed as he tried to get a copy of CBA's share register last year. Mr Tweed's company, National Exchange, is suing the Commonwealth Bank and ASX Perpetual Registrars for up to $80 million, claiming they deliberately thwarted his attempts to send unsolicited offers to unwitting shareholders at below-market prices.

Sharemarket Scavenger Reveals Offer Tactics

SHARE scammer David Tweed yesterday admitted that off-market offers he made to unwitting investors before 2003 purposely did not include the market prices of the securities because it weakened his chances of getting acceptances.

Tweed Targets Ignorant, Not Elderly, Investors

Share scammer David Tweed on Friday admitted that off-market offers he made to unwitting investors before 2003 purposely did not include the market prices of the securities because it weakened his chances of getting acceptances.

Tweed Lawyers Say Which Bank Image Was A Bad Sort

DAVID Tweed, the share scammer whose below-market offers to thousands of unwitting shareholders have infuriated some of Australia's biggest companies and corporate regulators, is due to take the stand in the Federal Court today as he fights his own battle against Commonwealth Bank.

Tweed Action Could Lead To Shake-up Of Corporations Act

When sharemarket scavenger David Tweed paid $10,000 for a copy of Commonwealth Bank's share registry he set events in train that could dramatically alter the impact of the Corporations Act on public companies.

Papers Put Tweed Loss At $80m

Share scammer David Tweed planned to make a financial killing of up to $80 million from Commonwealth Bank's army of small shareholders, according to papers filed in the Federal Court.

Tweed Aimed To Cut Cba Cloth To Tune Of $80m

Money-hungry share scammer David Tweed planned to make a financial killing of up to $80 million from Commonwealth Bank's small shareholders, according to papers filed in the Federal Court.

Computershare Eyes Proxy Chaser

Australia's largest share registry business, Computershare, is believed to be planning a major acquisition, possibly New York-based Georgeson Shareholder group, which could cost $US150 million ($221 million) or more.

Computershare Tipped For Us Buy

Computershare, Australia's largest share registry business, is believed to be in the running to acquire New York-based Georgeson Shareholder group, which could cost it $US150 million ($A220.9 million) or more.

Tweed Sues Cba For Blocking Access To Shareholders

Sharemarket scavenger David Tweed has accused the Commonwealth Bank of changing the format on a copy of its share register to stop him making offers to the bank's 727,000 shareholders at below market price.

Computershare Slips Lower

Computershare managing director Chris Morris yesterday announced an 84 per cent fall in net profit for the December half, but said the share registry was in the best financial and operational shape ever.

Bhp Job Ends Computershare's 'rotten Run'

Computershare has secured a multi-million-dollar global contract to supply share registry services to BHP Billiton after the resources giant farmed out its local registery operations for the first time.

Bhp Hands Over Task To Computershare

Computershare has secured a multi-million-dollar global contract to supply share registry services to BHP Billiton after the resources group farmed out its local registry operations for the first time.

C'share Sinks After Warning Of 25pc Plunge In First Half

Computershare scrip toppled 16per cent yesterday after the global share registry company said first-half earnings would be down on the previous year by about 25 per cent.